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- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 3 days ago:
Patents shouldn’t exist! Mostly.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 4 days ago:
I think that’s called conversion. Or unjust enrichment.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 6 days ago:
“Thermal Noise” is a phenomenon where everything makes EM noise, just from thermal energy.
If you were to put such a TV in a faraday cage, with an RF termination, you would see something similar. Because noise is inherently part of the circuitry and amplifiers.
- Comment on ChatGPT-4o Guardrail Jailbreak: Hex Encoding for Writing CVE Exploits. 3 weeks ago:
Must be a hallucination
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 1 month ago:
Obscufating the location of the starlink unit isn’t possible. It inherently requires positioning to function at all.
Starlink uses phased array antennas for beamforming, both on the earth base station and on the satelite station. That means the antenna is very directional by using some complex math and multiple tranceivers feeding an antenna array.
That means the satelite must know where you are within like 10s of km. Otherwise it can’t tell where to beam your data.
It’s kinda exactly why cell towers can locate you. And why you can’t avoid that.
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 1 month ago:
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 1 month ago:
Look at this article from March 2024: …house.gov/…/cnbc-house-democrats-probe-spacex-ov…
In a statement on Thursday, the congressmen wrote, “Russia’s use of Starlink satellite terminals would be in contravention of U.S. export controls that prohibit Russia from acquiring and utilizing U.S.-produced technology.”
So the equipment has to fall into the wrong hands, through a somehow compromised supply chain. Maybe that could happen without starlink knowing, but they really should have figured that out in march. They should have very easily identified the units that were potentially compromised by auditing shipping logs.
Not only did the supply chain have to be compromised, but also the subscription and payments system… How did they not catch it on the subscription payment side? Now in addition to a compromised supply chain, a financial institution was compromised? At the least, they didn’t do their due dilligance in customer verification.
How could russia have set up the equipment without some level of development and testing? Geolocation should have given that development away.
Now, could spaceX do something more about this ? Most likely. But that is resources you need to put on this, which is not profitable.
Yeah good point, that’s called “negligence”. Not doing due dilligance or taking the necessary steps to avoid breaking the law, because it isn’t profitable, isn’t a valid legal defense.
It really would have been as simple as geofencing against devices that weren’t preauthorized or whitelisted.
- Comment on Intel releases one last microcode update to fix high-end desktop CPU crashes 1 month ago:
That’s the beauty of intermittent problems!!
You can’t prove they aren’t there, only that they are, or, that you fail to reproduce.
- Comment on The phrase "Pics or it didn't happen" is largely meaningless now that AI is a thing. 1 month ago:
When we get brain implants to supplement memory, it’s all over for us
- Comment on Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating 1 month ago:
Oh I would have been so pissed. I was programming on my calculator 24/7 instead of my classes.
I wrote a sudoku “editor”
I put that in quotes because I had a grid that could be navigated, arrows moved, storing the numbers, had number entry down, and then I learned the hard way what p vs np is.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
Argument!
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 2 months ago:
A dab of super glue in the screw hole, find a screw driver you don’t really care about, add a drop of superglue accelerator
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
It isn’t that AI will have replaced us in 24 months, it’s that we will be enslaved in 24 months. Or in the matrix. Etc.
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
My absolute favorite is when I asked copilot to code a UI button and it just pasted “// the UI element should do (…) but instead it is doing (…)” a dozen times.
Like, clearly someone on stackoverflow asked for help, got used for training data, and confused copilot
- Comment on Peloton announces $95 “used equipment activation fee” 2 months ago:
I don’t get what it has to do with copyright?
It’s as simple as they built the equipment to require an app. And it needs the cloud, so its either accept the license or stop using the hw.
It’s happening everywhere.
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 3 months ago:
There’s going to be no external interference when you’re under water. Sea water makes an excellent em shield
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
I’m not convinced there was an issue with 12th gen. I had instability with the 12900k until the latest bios update.
- Comment on Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks 3 months ago:
I bet the screen is less prone to scratching from anything in your pockets
- Comment on If a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemetery 3 months ago:
Or a catacomb
- Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells 3 months ago:
Physical locks and keys are also easy to bypass.
- Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells 3 months ago:
Especially if X# of cameras are down
- Comment on It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone 4 months ago:
Capacitive sensors don’t measure the body’s signals. Capacitance is a physical property of a material. The sensor puts out a signal and measures the response.
I can use a gallon of milk to scroll my phone. Just tried.
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
No? You don’t think the courts would approve of a fishing expedition for forth amendment violations?
- Comment on When was the last time you made Jello? 4 months ago:
Yeah but it’s not like you eat it anyways
- Comment on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore 4 months ago:
As soon as they bake drm checks into the os
- Comment on I liked Fusion 360, I like Onshape - but I'd rather like something that I won't lose over the whims of one company. So, what? 4 months ago:
OpenSCAD is pretty good, but I’ve run into issues with the rotate/extrude. Also only saves as a mesh, which may or may not matter for your application
- Comment on Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks 4 months ago:
Coming from the man who knows more about manufacturing than anyone on the planet
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 4 months ago:
Damn, even fighter jets have an external override. They’re even labeled for rescue workers.
- Comment on Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees 4 months ago:
Nighthawkinlight just released a video on a material that accomplishes this that you could make at home.
- Comment on “We Can Still Contact Technical Support in the West”: Russian weapons are being manufactured on foreign machinery — but why are they still running? 4 months ago:
Since when did manufacturing equipment need an activation key? Are they talking about CNC mills? PLCs?
